..These guidelines emphasize the reporting of theories used and descriptions of intervention and comparison conditions, research design, and methods of adjusting for possible biases in evaluation studies that use nonrandomized designs...

Translating the Diabetes Prevention Program into the community. The DEPLOY Pilot Study

..If adjustments to the interactions between GHIs and country health systems will improve efficiency, equity, value for money, and outcomes in global public health, then these opportunities should not be missed...

Evidence suggesting that a chronic disease self-management program can improve health status while reducing hospitalization: a randomized trial

..To examine the impact of a large-scale HIV prevention programme for female sex workers (FSW) in Karnataka state, south India, on the prevalence of HIV/sexually transmitted infections (STI), condom use and programme coverage...

The RE-AIM framework for evaluating interventions: what can it tell us about approaches to chronic illness management?

..Understanding how and why programs work-not simply whether they work-is crucial. Good theory is indispensable to advancing the science of improvement. We argue for the usefulness of ex post theorization of programs...

Evaluating the relevance, generalization, and applicability of research: issues in external validation and translation methodology

Sushena Reza-PaulDepartment of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, CanadaAIDS 22:S91-100. 2008

..The key programme components were: community mobilization and peer-mediated outreach; increasing access to and utilization of sexual health services; and enhancing the enabling environment to support programme activities...

..Techniques, borrowed from social marketing and health communication theory, for developing culturally sensitive interventions are described. Research is needed to determine the effectiveness of culturally sensitive programs...

Effectiveness of community based Safe Motherhood promoters in improving the utilization of obstetric care. The case of Mtwara Rural District in Tanzania

..S. health care system. Six years later, many health care organizations have embraced the report's goals, but few have succeeded in making the substantial transformations needed to achieve those aims...

Evaluating the dissemination of Body & Soul, an evidence-based fruit and vegetable intake intervention: challenges for dissemination and implementation research

Marlyn AllicockGillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USAJ Nutr Educ Behav 44:530-8. 2012

..To evaluate whether the evidence-based Body & Soul program, when disseminated and implemented without researcher or agency involvement and support, would achieve results similar to those of earlier efficacy and effectiveness trials...

..Each year millions of Americans enroll in commercial and self-help weight loss programs. Health care providers and their obese patients know little about these programs because of the absence of systematic reviews...

Design of a 20-month comprehensive, multicomponent school-based randomised trial to promote healthy weight development among 11-13 year olds: The HEalth In Adolescents study

N LienDepartment of Nutrition, University of Oslo, NorwayScand J Public Health 38:38-51. 2010

..The purpose of this paper is to present the development of the intervention, the design of the effectiveness study, and the test-retest reliability of the main outcome measures in the HEalth In Adolescents (HEIA) study...

What do we know about health care team effectiveness? A review of the literature

..Towards this aim, an innovative program design strategy is to develop hybrid prevention programs that "build in" adaptation to enhance program fit while also maximizing fidelity of implementation and program effectiveness...

Computer-delivered interventions to reduce college student drinking: a meta-analysis

..By December 2007, over 48,000 persons had initiated antiretroviral treatment (ART) at 171 clinics in Rwanda. Assessing national ART program outcomes is essential to determine whether programs have the desired impact...

Effectiveness of the Tier 1 Program of Project P.A.T.H.S.: findings based on three years of program implementation

..Obesity is a substantial problem in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). VHA developed and disseminated the MOVE! Weight Management Program for Veterans to its medical facilities but implementation of the program has been variable...

..The objective of this study was to understand contextual factors that facilitated or impeded implementation of MOVE! in VA medical centers in the second year after its dissemination...

Can a comprehensive voucher programme prompt changes in doctors' knowledge, attitudes and practices related to sexual and reproductive health care for adolescents? A case study from Latin America

Liesbeth E MeuwissenDepartment of General Practice, University of Maastricht, The NetherlandsTrop Med Int Health 11:889-98. 2006

..To evaluate whether participation in a competitive voucher programme designed to improve access to and quality of sexual and reproductive health care (SRH-care), prompted changes in doctors' knowledge, attitudes and practices...

Social inequalities in quitting smoking: what factors mediate the relationship between socioeconomic position and smoking cessation?

Rosemary HiscockUK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath, Bath, UKJ Public Health (Oxf) 33:39-47. 2011

..Smokers from lower socio-economic groups are less likely to be successful in a quit attempt than more affluent smokers, even when they access smoking cessation services...

Assessment of intervention outcome in the absence of baseline data: 'reconstruction' of condom use time trends using retrospective analysis of survey data

..The authors used a novel method of analysing cross-sectional survey data to 'reconstruct' condom use rates in presurvey years, and to assess the relationship between Avahan and time trends in condom use among female sex workers (FSWs)...

Undergraduate research experiences support science career decisions and active learning

..The follow-up survey indicated that students reported gains in independence, intrinsic motivation to learn, and active participation in courses taken after the summer undergraduate research experience...

Thomas BodenheimerDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, Building 80 83, San Francisco General Hospital, 1001 Potrero Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94110, USADis Manag 6:63-71. 2003

..A literature review is provided to summarize the effectiveness of these Chronic Care Model components...

Sampling-based approaches to improve estimation of mortality among patient dropouts: experience from a large PEPFAR-funded program in Western Kenya

..To develop a patient-centred, group-based self-management programme (X-PERT), based on theories of empowerment and discovery learning, and to assess the effectiveness of the programme on clinical, lifestyle and psychosocial outcomes...

Healthy hearts--and the universal benefits of being physically active: physical activity and health

..Prospective learners lack evidence-based guidance on how to choose between the options on offer. We aimed to produce theory driven criteria to guide the development and evaluation of Internet-based medical courses...

Longer-term primary prevention for alcohol misuse in young people: a systematic review

..To identify and summarize rigorous evaluations of psychosocial and educational interventions aimed at the primary prevention of alcohol misuse by young people aged up to 25 years, especially over the longer term (>3 years)...

..It emphasises the important contribution which such research can make to improving the effectiveness of these programmes and to developing the science of quality improvement...

Assessment of generalisability in trials of health interventions: suggested framework and systematic review

C BonellLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HTBMJ 333:346-9. 2006

Operational effectiveness and 36 week HIV-free survival in the South African programme to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1

Debra J JacksonSchool of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South AfricaAIDS 21:509-16. 2007

..Previous studies on the operational effectiveness of programmes to reduce transmission of HIV from mother-to-child (PMTCT) in Africa have generally been hospital-based pilot studies with short follow-up periods...

Impact of a diabetes prevention program on body size, physical activity, and diet among Kanien'keha:ka (Mohawk) children 6 to 11 years old: 8-year results from the Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project

..11%) were also reported. The present study replicated the findings reported in previous studies and suggests that the Tier 1 Program of the Project P.A.T.H.S. is beneficial to the development of the program participants...

..Operational, clinical and public health research is urgently needed to guide the long-term delivery of HIV care and ART to the many patients in need, including pregnant women, infants, children and adolescents. ..

..This is an extraordinary retention rate if we consider that a lumbar puncture is performed once a year. Our Program Evaluation Committee PAC made the following statement after their last site visit (Sept 05) to our Institution: "The ..

..The proposed work will demonstrate feasibility of SCID NBS with optimized NBS tests for SCID and generate data from a Massachusetts-wide pilot program to determine whether SCID NBS meets criteria for inclusion on NBS panels. ..

..in science policy and health policy;and innovative research methods in comparative case study design and program evaluation research. They are eminently qualified and fully committed to assisting Dr...

..this research could lead t very significant improvements in public health surveillance, planning and program evaluation. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE In many countries, particularly poorer and middle-income ones, information about ..

..and enhanced training of local public health and environmental specialists in cutting edge technology that help inform the link between environmental exposures and human health in the north and urban core areas of Jacksonville, Florida ..

..After completion of the proposed five-year training program, the applicant will be well positioned to conduct interdisciplinary, high-impact research that conveys the role of professional midwives in sub-Saharan Africa. ..

..An expert multidisciplinary national team of consultants will guide the content development and program evaluation. In addition to its strong commercial potential (applicants have commercialized 100% of their SBIR awards ..

..patients appropriately treated with intravenous tissue plasminogen activator (IV tPA);and C) to perform program evaluation of the methods used in the intervention to determine which efforts are the most effective...

..proseminars, and journal clubs;the completion of a first year research project;and participation in program evaluation. It is estimated that 1 in 10 people in the US have some type of communication disorder (speech, language, ..

..in the Seattle MSA is to provide relevant data for local HIV prevention resource allocation and prevention program evaluation. To accomplish this goal, we propose to collaborate with CDC to continue maintaining and evaluating a ..

..of program plans such that they are more evidenced-based;c) help assure uniformity and quality of program evaluation data reported to lead agencies by partners;and d) increase the likelihood of program success...

..data collection system for an existing CDC funded school-based asthma intervention that will allow program evaluation and link school nurses with providers;(5) Evaluate and compare the effectiveness of these three asthma ..

..Pre- and post intervention interviews will measure knowledge and behavior. Guided by a logic model, the program evaluation will focus on short term outcomes (increased individual knowledge about pesticide safety;greater mastery of ..

..Identifying the effects and underlying mechanisms of PA behavior change interventions will facilitate translation to community settings for improving the health and well- being of breast cancer survivors. ..

..Hill (UNC), in biostatistics;surgical, behavioral, and quality of life outcomes;cost-effectiveness and program evaluation;and qualitative and quantitative surveys, who will collaborate with PFDN investigators to (a) develop ..

..battery, in its later, ultimate form, for both formative and summative child assessments and classroom or program evaluation;it will be used to inform overall classroom instruction and instructional plans for specific students, ..

..program started with baseline data collection in 2004, in order to guide interventions and facilitate future program evaluation. A total of 64,537 individuals were interviewed between 2004 and 2008, and each was tested for a malaria ..

..By combining data from the Health Care Financing Administration's Medicare Hospice Benefit Program Evaluation and the National Hospice Organization's National Hospice Census, the following three questions regarding ..

..investigation quantifies the effect of announcing a policy before its implementation, with consequences for program evaluation. The idea that policy announcements can have real effects (separate from their implementation effect) on ..

..in the 21st Century for the Small Health Science Library, will describe five basic library evaluation tools: program evaluation, needs assessment, benchmarking, performance improvement, and standards and guidelines...

..that reflect this fundamental construct are needed for use in needs assessment, research, program design and program evaluation. Innovation: We intend to build a theoretically-driven QoL measure using a needs-based approach that ..

..and qualitative methodologies, 2) experience in evaluation of research proposals, and 3) experience in program evaluation. The proposed research aims to promote quality of life at the end of life by investigating the patient and ..

..This study extends existing work and capitalizes upon a prospectively-designed program evaluation to deliver important answers about providing care to one of our country's most vulnerable and costly ..

..that will offer both generalized and program tailored implementation training; and the Early Intervention Program Evaluation Toolkit, a CD-ROM-based toolkit that will guide El program leaders in assessing evaluation readiness of ..

..NIH support will enable the investigators to move beyond a more narrowly focused program evaluation of mobility programs, like Yonkers and Gautreaux -- whose basic premise is that moving to more affluent ..